Mixed Bag

 It was a little bit of everything in the Port of Halifax today, February 8, including containers, automobiles, tankers and a Dockyard visitor.

The container sector was represented by NYK Daedalus arriving from Antwerp on THE Alliance's AL5 service. The 55,534 gt, 65,967 dwt ship is the "name ship" of class of eight with a capacity of 4922 TEU built by Hyundai, Ulsan in 2007. Most of its sister ships have called in Halifax with this one a regular since its first visit July 21, 2014.

The NYK Daedalus prepares to make its turn to back in alongside the PSA Fairview Cove container terminal. Tugs Atlantic Oak and Atlantic Beaver are on the ship's port side.

 The autocarrier Don Carlos, another regular, arrived mid-afternoon on the Wallenius Wilhelmsen transatlantic route. The ship has made the usual round of Zeebrugge, Bremerhaven Goteborg and Southampton. After discharging cars at Autoport it will move to Pier 9C tomorrow to offload RoRo cargo.

 Tugs Atlantic Larch. forward, and Atlantic Beaver, aft, met the ship in the Middle Ground area to steer it aroiund Macnab's Island and into Eastern Passage and Autoport.

As per a previous report: "Don Carlos was built in 1997 by Daewoo, Okpo and lengthened 8.6 meters in 2006 by Hyundai Vinashin in Vietnam and is now 62,141 gt, 28,147 dwt with a capacity of 7194 CEU. When the ship was lengthened the large billboard lettering on the sides of the ship was not re-centered, giving a slightly unbalanced look."

HMC Dockyard said goodbye to a long term visitor, SD Victoria, the British ship that gives world wide support to the Royal Navy. This is the second time that the ship has spent more than a month in Halifax. In 2022 it arrived on February 10 and sailed March 30. Its most recent arrival was December 27, 2023,and it has been alongside the whole time. There was a military exercise in Halifax yesterday, but if it was a participant in some way it never left the dock

On departure today the ship gave the US Guard base in Baltimore for a destination, but it came back in to Halifax in the early evening.

The tanker Navig8 Constellation (see yesterday's post) sailed at dusk for Houston. Its place was to be taken by Algoberta which arrived from the Kildair (Sprague) terminal, St-Victoire-de-Sorel, QC this morning and has been waiting at Pier 9B.

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